Customization Apps for MAC
35 free Mac apps in Customization, including MaCursor, Mos, and Karabiner-Elements. Each app page lists its version, size, macOS requirement and what’s new, and the download button leads to the developer’s official source.
35 apps
ThawThaw takes back your Mac's menu bar. It hides the icons you do not need, with an always-hidden section for the rest, and brings them back when you hover, click, scroll, swipe or press a hotkey. You can search and jump to any menu bar item from the keyboard, arrange items by drag and drop, keep related items together in groups, and show hidden items in a separate bar, which helps on MacBooks with a notch. Triggers can reveal an item when something happens, such as a low battery, a Wi-Fi network or a Focus mode, and profiles switch layouts per display or Space.Customization
SwiftBarSwiftBar lets you add your own programs to the macOS menu bar. Write a script in any language, such as shell, Python, Ruby or JavaScript, put it in SwiftBar's plugin folder, and its output appears in the menu bar, refreshing as often as you like. A plugin can show anything from the weather, a stock price or the status of a server to your unread messages, with a dropdown menu of actions underneath. You can also get ready-made plugins from SwiftBar's built-in plugin repository and from the large collection written for BitBar.Customization
LoopLoop makes window management on the Mac quick and elegant. Hold down a trigger key and move your cursor in a direction: a radial menu appears and Loop moves and resizes the window to match, for example to the left half, a corner or full screen. A preview shows the new size before you let go. If you prefer the keyboard, you can give every action its own shortcut together with the trigger key, and cycles let you step through several sizes by pressing the same shortcut again.Customization
HammerspoonHammerspoon is a free tool for powerful automation of macOS. At its core it is a bridge between the operating system and the Lua scripting language: you write short scripts, and Hammerspoon turns them into actions on your Mac. Scripts can work with applications, windows, the mouse pointer, files, audio devices, batteries, screens, low-level keyboard and mouse events, the clipboard, location services, Wi-Fi and more. That makes it possible to build your own hotkeys, window layouts, menu bar items, alerts and automations, exactly the way you want them.Customization
AerialAerial plays Apple's aerial videos, from cities and deserts to the view from the International Space Station, as your Mac's screensaver and as a live wallpaper. It brought the Apple TV screensaver to the Mac in 2015, and it goes well beyond what macOS offers on its own: you choose exactly what plays and when, put a clock, the weather or location captions on top, stretch one video across all your displays, add your own videos, or watch a live camera feed instead. The whole Apple TV catalogue is available at native quality, including the 4K 240 fps set.Customization
AmethystAmethyst is a tiling window manager for macOS, inspired by xmonad on Linux. Instead of dragging and resizing windows by hand, Amethyst arranges them automatically so they fill the screen without overlapping. You choose a layout, such as a tall main window with others stacked beside it, a grid or full screen, and switch between layouts, move windows and change their sizes with keyboard shortcuts. Each screen and each Space can have its own layout. Amethyst is developed by Ian Ybarra and a community of contributors.Customization
AltTabAltTab brings the Windows-style window switcher to the Mac. Press the shortcut and you see a preview of every open window, not just every app, so you can jump straight to the right document or browser window, even when one app has many windows open. You can switch between windows on all Spaces and screens, close, minimize or quit them from the switcher, and choose exactly which windows appear. AltTab has been developed by Louis Pontoise since 2018 and has been downloaded millions of times.Customization
Scroll ReverserScroll Reverser is a free, open-source Mac app that reverses the direction of scrolling, with separate settings for trackpads and mice, including the Magic Mouse. macOS has only one scroll direction setting for both, so many people end up with "natural" scrolling on the trackpad and a mouse wheel that feels backwards. Scroll Reverser fixes that: keep natural scrolling on the trackpad and classic scrolling on the mouse, or any mix you like. It is made by Nick Moore of Pilot Moon Software and released under the Apache License 2.0.Customization
IceIce is a free, open-source menu bar manager for Mac. It hides the menu bar icons you rarely use and brings them back with a click, a hover or a scroll, so a crowded menu bar stays tidy and nothing is lost behind the notch on a MacBook. Ice is made by Jordan Baird and released under the GPL-3.0 license.Customization
Hidden BarHidden Bar is a free, open-source utility that hides menu bar icons to give your Mac a cleaner look. It adds an arrow and a separator to the menu bar: icons to the left of the separator are hidden, and one click on the arrow shows or hides them again. It is very small and simple, and is made by the Dwarves Foundation under the MIT license.Customization
RectangleRectangle is a free, open-source window manager for Mac. It moves and resizes windows with keyboard shortcuts or by dragging them to the edges and corners of the screen, so you can put two apps side by side, fill a quarter of the display or send a window to another monitor in a second. Rectangle is made by Ryan Hanson, is based on the Spectacle app, and is released under the MIT license.Customization